Yes, it is possible to Reverse Diabetes with Fork and Knife

[Guest guest]

Reversing Diabetes with Fork and Knife

 

a speech of Dr. Hans Diehl

 

At one time, the diagnosis of diabetes was like a death sentence. It meant

trouble, difficulties and many diseases. But the times have changed. Today

diabetes can be disarmed and diabetes can be reversed. High blood sugar levels

can be reduced and people are in most cases no longer dependent on insulin

injections and pills. It is a new day for the treatment of diabetes.

 

It’s good news and all that people have to do is make some simple lifestyle

changes. Let me give you some ideas. I’ll give you some numbers from the

United States which are in many ways, relatively speaking, comparable to all

Western societies.

 

In most Western countries we find that those who have diabetes do not even know

they have it. About half of all diabetics don’t know that they have the

disease; they haven’t yet been diagnosed. Those who know they have diabetes,

one third is taking insulin, one third is taking pills, and one third are on a

special diet which is usually a high protein diet.

 

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Why are we concerned about diabetes?

 

* It’s one of the most powerful factors in the promotion of

atherosclerosis, which leads to heart disease and many other problems. Here you

see the risk arc of heart disease, and diabetes is one of the powerful factors

which promotes heart disease.

* We know that 80% of diabetics die from atherosclerosis related diseases.

These people must control their risk factors which are largely caused by their

diet.

* Diabetes promotes heart disease and stroke.

* Diabetes promotes kidney disease. Kidney disease is 18 times more

frequently found in diabetics than in non diabetics.

* It is the number one cause of blindness.

* It causes urine impairment.

* It leads to foot amputations and is a powerful factor in impotence.

 

And please note that in America, the increase of diabetes since World War II is

a 700% per cent increase in diabetes, particularly with the development of

larger bodies. It has doubled in America every 15 years and today the chances of

becoming a diabetic for a newborn baby who lives to 70 years of age is one in

five.

 

One in five babies born today will become diabetics and the National Institutes

of Health says: We have no medical cure. But we have a cure in the area of

lifestyle medicine.

 

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What is diabetes?

 

Very quickly. Every person has a pancreas. The pancreas produces insulin and the

insulin has the function of opening up every cell in the body so that blood

sugar, the sugar in the blood, can leave the blood and enter the cell where the

sugar in needed.

 

A body works on the utilization of glucose. Just like a car runs on gasoline,

the body runs on blood glucose. And insulin opens up these cell openings. It is

as if Insulin opens the doors, so that glucose may enter when a cell needs food.

 

So once more, you have a pancreas which produces the insulin, the insulin has

the function of opening the cellular gates, so that the glucose can go inside,

the glucose goes down in the blood stream and goes into the cell and everything

works wonderfully well.

 

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But, you have two types of diabetics.

 

Type one.

 

The juvenile diabetic, which represents about 5% of all the diabetics in Western

societies. These people are very slender. They have a pancreas, but it produces

no insulin, therefore the blood sugar builds up on the outside of a cell in the

blood and the cell starves. So these persons will always be dependent on insulin

injections

 

But 95% are Type 2.

 

I will talk to you about Type 2 diabetics today predominantly because 95% of all

diabetics are in this category, and here you see a pancreas totally different

from Type I.

 

It is a different disease which most commonly occurs when people are around 40

years of age. Normally, the person is large and his pancreas is overactive. The

pancreas produces more and more insulin, trying to meet the demands of the body,

and yet something does not work. Much of the blood sugar builds up on the

outside of the cell. In Type I, it was because of a lack of insulin.

 

Now we have insulin and we still become diabetics. Why? We have lots of insulin,

but the insulin somehow is deactivated. It cannot reach the doorbell to ring the

bell so that the doors open up and the blood sugar can go inside; only a small

portion, and so the poor person with high blood sugar is always hungry, always

thirsty; and after many years the pancreas becomes petite and then often times

gives up and that person can become a Type I diabetic.

 

I do not want to spend too much time on those, but just remember Type I is

fairly rare and Type II is very common. It happens to people over 40 years of

age and develops very commonly. Why do we have so much diabetes, what can we do

about diabetes?

 

For many, many years we have used a certain diabetic diet. This diet was largely

made up of fat because we had the mistaken notion that diabetics cannot handle

carbohydrates, they cannot handle sugar and we never made the distinction

between simple carbohydrates and complex carbohydrates.

 

Sugar and Starch: Is Sugar really to blame?

 

Between sugar and starch (amidon). They are different; they are totally

different, specially if the starch is « naturbelassen », specially if it is a

natural kind of a starch, that is not refined. It is totally different because

the fiber contents slow down the absorption of complex molecules. But we never

understood this. And so we said:

«Aha, the person is a diabetic because sugar is in the blood, therefore a

person who is diabetic cannot use sugar and so therefore do not eat sugar and

you are fine».

 

We have been terribly wrong. And so if a person cannot use sugar, then we must

eat fats and protein, and this has been unfortunately the guideline for how to

treat diabetics.

 

In 1991, 70% per cent of the diet came from fat, so these people died from

atherosclerosis and from heart disease.

 

In 1950, below 40% to 35% of fat, now we say maybe we should have less than 30%

fat.

 

In our program in the USA where we reversed diabetes, 50% of all diabetics are

no longer on insulin in four weeks.

 

We use a 15% fat diet or less, a total vegetarian diet and a vegetarian

«Voll-wert-nahrung». Unrefined foods. They will always have enough protein; we

like to see at about 60-70 g no more.

 

But most of the recommendations by the National Institutes recommend a diet that

is of 30% fat, about 20% protein which is a high protein diet, so people are

being told to eat more chicken, eat more fish and lean beef.

 

You can see in The Health Sentinel how theses criminal recommendations were

passed.

 

So we provide people with a vegetarian diet which is very high in complex

carbohydrates, over 70 per cent, as you would find in China and in most

countries in the world where marketing has not yet brainwashed people.

 

Here is the latest statement from the American Diabetic Association. It says

about the use of the sugar: “The scientific evidence does not justify the

restriction of sugarâ€. We are changing totally. We are not telling people: It

is alright to eat some sugar, there is no problem with it. We have to change all

of our thinking.

 

But I want to open another door of our understanding. The true culprit in the

development of diabetes is the enormous high-fat content of the Western diet. Of

all the calories that we eat, 40% comes from fat. In a natural diet it is more

like 5 to 15%. So we probably eat 3 times too much fat.

 

We can take medical students and give them a high fat diet and within one week

we can produce 50% diabetics. One week on a high fat diet. It has been done in

1927.

 

It was done again in 1964. It has been done over and over again. If I wanted to

do this with my medical students in diabetes, all I have to do is tell them: eat

all the fat, eat all the grease that you want for one week and I will have

excellent chance to have 70% who will test as diabetics in one week. And then I

will give them one pound of sugar every day for one week, for 2 weeks for 10

weeks, but very little fat, and I cannot produce one diabetic in 11 weeks. So,

we have to rethink our understanding of diabetes.

 

We have known this for many years. I can go into all the science, but I want to

continue with my presentation at this point.

 

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Introducing Dr. James Anderson

 

This is Dr. James Anderson. He did the very same experiment as we have talked

about. He took medical students. He gave them one pound of sugar a day; no fat -

no diabetes in 11-12-13 weeks. He gave them one pound of sugar, no diabetes. He

gave them a high fat diet, and his medical students all wanted to commit the

experiment because they were all given free fatty foods. They would go to

McDonald’s as often as they wanted to. And they all wanted to participate in

the experiment. In one week the experiment was over - because 70% were tested as

diabetics.

 

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Other Studies

 

This is from the large Adventist Health study. This study that followed 30,000

people. Those who are vegetarians have the least amount of diabetes, those who

are meat eaters have 400% more diabetes, which supports the idea since meat is

very high in fat that fat is related here. In the world we can see in the next

20-30 years a dramatic increase in diabetes as the world embraces a more Western

lifestyle.

In 1933, Dr. Rabinowitch in Montreal documented the reversal of diabetes. How?

He put the people on a very simple vegetarian, very low fat diet.

In 1955, Dr. Inder Singh tried to duplicate the results and used a 11% fat diet

natural foods, vegetarian diet. He had 80 diabetics on insulin. Fifty of these

diabetics were off insulin six weeks. We have some other results. In the same

road, in the English medical journal Lancet, on a very low fat diet, the insulin

that the body usually produces begins to become active again and they will cure

most diabetics within weeks.

I work as the Director of the Lifestyle Medicine Institute in Loma Linda /

California and there we found out in four weeks by observing its patients of a

basic vegetarian very low-fat diet that 85% of the patients on medication were

able to stop their medications, their blood sugars were normal. They were no

longer diabetics. 85%.

Usually in two weeks. 50% of the patients with type II diabetics were actually

able to stop their insulin in less than 4 weeks. I was amazed and it changed my

whole outlook on how to practice.

 

I want to give you one more study which was published and sponsored by the Group

of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and which supports our city

wide programs where we involved 3-4-5,000 people, and we changed the whole town.

We changed the restaurants, we changed the physicians’ attitudes, we changed

the society and our aim is a cultural transformation.

 

This group in Washington used a vegetarian diet: 10 % protein, 10 % fat, high

starch, low in sugar, cholesterol free which means a vegetarian diet. Food as

grown. High in fiber. It was contrasted with the American Dietetic Association

diet which is high in protein, almost twice as high, which is three times higher

in fat, and which only supports 42% of the energy in starch, and it contributes

to the American of cholesterol. So this is a American diet that is typically

used for treatment of diabetes; it promotes chicken, and fish and lean beef

relatively high in protein but still contains a good chunk of cholesterol and of

course it is much lower in fiber.

 

Results:

 

Now what are the results ? Here are the results: The blood sugars in this group

were 59% lower than in the traditional diabetic diet applicated. Much less

medication in this group here. Dramatic drops in the cholesterol as you always

find with the vegetarian diet, weight loss was 16 pounds in comparison with 8

pounds.

 

Vegetarian food is wonderful. You can eat as much food as you want. Just about -

if you eat the right foods. And you lose weight. You eat more and you weigh

less. But you have to choose your foods properly.

 

There is a difference between a healthy vegetarian diet and a vegetarian diet.

There can be a profound difference. That is what I always say: Foods as grown,

simply prepared, without other fats, oil and grease and sugar. And the kidney

function improves dramatically which was extremely important because the number

one difficulty for diabetics is kidney disease: It is 18 times higher. But in

this study here they found that the diabetes was managed with the diet, not only

disappeared in most cases but the kidney function recovered; kidney disease

reversed itself we have seen in our studies as well.

 

The conclusion now

 

There is no more scientific debate as far as I am concerned. There is only a

political debate - do you understand?

 

We have known this since 1921; we have known what we needed to do.

 

Medicine is not only something that moves along gradually. Medicine today has

also become a business.

 

We have no nutritional curriculum in medical schools today, and whatever is

there is very minimal.

 

(See The Health Sentinel on this site)

 

We have to really work very hard with the system that does not move very easily

but we have made a commitment to working with our colleagues. It does not help

the cause to condemn; it only helps to light a candle.

 

Prof. James Anderson, one of the foremost diabetologist in the world said: Some

50 to 75 per cent of Type II diabetics that are using insulin and 80 to 90% of

patients who use pills, could normalize their blood sugars and be off medication

within weeks if they change their diet.

 

What changes should be made? To eat foods as grown, easy, simple, effective,

inexpensive, delicious and fun.

 

And yet people come to us all the time and say: «But I never knew about this,

no one ever gave me the right diet». And that is the problem today in the

treatment of diabetes. Many of us are still giving diets that are too high in

protein, that are too high in fat, because we still have the mistaken notion

that the diabetic cannot handle complex carbohydrates. It has always been the

ideal diet to manage most diseases, and it will be the ideal diet for the

treatment of diabetes, the reversibility of diabetes and - if you begin early

enough - you can surely prevent this terrifying disease which has so many

clinical consequences.

 

A difficult disease to treat, and the answers are often times very simple and

easy, but the problem is how to motivate those who prescribe the diet and those

who have the disease. How do you motivate, how do you inspire, how do you do it

as a loving concern and with patience. That is our challenge. To live the

lifestyle that is correct is the most powerful testimony pointing towards a

brighter future